Correlation between clinical grading of adenoid or tonsil hypertrophy and adenoid or tonsil volume post adenotonsillectomy: a prospective cohort study

Unsuccessful Tonsil and Adenoid Operations

Some Tips about Tonsils and Adenoid Tonsil

This is an artic.:le about the pharyngeal lymphoid tissue. so called waldyer's ring. I have tride to give a rather clear discription of Its functi<"m, especially pointing to Its role in protecting the body against the infections by promoting the antibodv production and lymphocite formation.  In the view of these functions a clear cut indi­cations and contraindications of adenotonsillectomy has...

Adenoid and Tonsil Hypertrophy in Children and Facial Malformations

The controversy over the influence of nasal breathing on facial bone development has continued for decades and otolaryngologists are often questioned on this subject. The pharynx is a segment of the airway whose walls are soft and shaped primarily by the constrictor muscles and tongue, which attributes a very dynamic character. This tract is also delimited by the adenoids, tonsils and the lingu...

Validation of an outcomes instrument for tonsil and adenoid disease.

OBJECTIVE To design and validate a disease-specific health status instrument-the Tonsil and Adenoid Health Status Instrument-for use in children with tonsil and adenoid disease. DESIGN Prospective psychometric and clinimetric instrument validation in 3 stages. SETTINGS A tertiary academic pediatric specialty hospital and a tertiary academic hospital, in 2 different cities. PATIENTS/OTHER PA...

Recent Views on the Tonsil and Adenoid Problem

BE1FORE comiimencing my paper on recent views on the tonsil and adenioid problem, I xvill take you back to ancient timnes and verv briefly tell you somiiething about the tonsil problem of those days. In the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius there lived a imian, Cornelius (ialsus, who wrote an encVclopaxdia, in which, although not himilself a medical imian, lc emboilhocics a treatise on mle(di...